Electric-motor-car trolley



(No Model.)

y J. IVLKENNEDY.

ELECTRIC MOTOR OAR TROLLEY.

No. 548,997. Patented Oct. 29, 1895.

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UNrrn ramas ArsfN'r JAMES M. KENNEDY, OF HOLLIDAYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA,ASSIGNOR OF THREE-FOURTHS TO THOMAS F. JOHNSTON, OF SAME PLACE, AND WIL-IAM F. GABLE AND GALEN HEMPERLY, OF ALTOONA` PENNSYLVANIA.

ELECTRlClv/IOTOR-CAR TROLLEY.

SFECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 548,997, dated October29, 1895. Applimioniednay31.1895. sentono. 551,116. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. KENNEDY, residing at Hollidaysburg, in thecounty of Blair and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new andImproved Electric Motor-Oar, of which the following is a specification.

My invention isin the nature of an improved electric motor-car havingoverhead trolley equipments; and it primarily has for its object toprovide a car of this kind having the trolley adjusting or swingingdevices simply and compactly arranged and disposed in such a manner thatthe trolley can be adjusted from within to engage or disengage the wire.

My invention also has among other objects for its purpose to provide astreet-car having closed ends and side doors,whereby to facilitate theingress or egress of passengers, and also a central conductors.vestibule or space provided, which will enable the conductor at alltimes to have easy access to the trolley mechanism to adjust the sameand to have a free view of the passengers at both ends of the car andanuninterrupted street vieW.

With other minor objects in view, which will hereinafter be referred to,the invention consists in the peculiar combination and novel arrangementof parts, such as will be flrst described in detail, and then bespecifically pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, in which- Fgure l is a perspective view of myimproved motor-car. Fig. 2 is a detail view illustrating thetrolley-shifting mechanism here-V inafter particularly referred to.

My improved trolley-car is a platformless one, and provided with doorsat the sides,

whereby passengers can step direct from the street into the a', andthereby save much time in the stops the car for taking on or letting oitpassengers. I

In connection with a side-entrance car-body I arrangepeculiarly-constructed trolley-operating means manipulated from theinside of the car at the center thereof. For this purpose the car-bodyA, which in practice is of the length of an ordinary motor-car, has theside openings B B disposed centrally of the car.

As before indicated, the conductors position on my improvedcar is at thecenter there of, and as it is the duty of a conductor tov swing about ortake charge of the trolleyI provide a simple, easily manipulated, andeffective trolley-controlling mechanism adapted to be convenientlyhandled by the conduccrank arm or lever O, which has a pendent handle Pnear its outer end. The head portion m of the shaft has a socket m3,which communicates through the medium of the channel 'm4 with a socketm5 in the lower end of the shaft. In the sockets m3 and m5 are journaledpulleys R R, over which passes a cord or cable S, the outer end of whichpasses over a guide-pulley R', j ournaled on the outer end of theextensionl of the turn-table L', from whence it passes up and connectswith the trolley-arm, as shown at s. The inner end of this cable passesover a pulley and guide R2 on the outer end of the arm O and carries aWeighted handle S2, the Weight of which is sufficient to take up theslack of the cable or cord.

Q Q are lookouts formed on the top of the car over the central orconductors space and arranged in such a manner that the conductor can,by looking up through such lookouts, ascertain the condition of thetrolley.

To provide a simple and eective means for aiding the conductor to placethe trolley on the Wire at night in case it slips the Wire and leavesthe car in darkness, I form the turntable with an eXtensionZQon which isheld a bulls-eye or lens so arranged as to throw the light rays directlyonto the Wire and the trolley.

From the foregoing it will be readily apparent that as the conductor isstationed in the center of the car he can quickly and easily turn thetrolley by swinging the lever O around and pulling on the handle S2 tore- IOO lease the trolley from the Wire, and in case the trolley shouldslip 'from the Wire he can, owing to the lookouts, by pulling on thehandle S2 soon reset the saine in a proper position on the Wire.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

l. An improved street car, having side entrances, a central vestibuleconnecting such entrances and forming a conductors space, lookouts inthe top of the car over the said space, a turn table held to rotatebetween the lookouts, having an operating lever, connectedtherewith,held inside the car top over the conduetors space, and thetrolley mechanism mounted on the turn table all arranged substantiallyas shown and for the purposes described.

2. As an improvement in electric overhead trolley cars, the combinationwith a car body having closed ends, and side entrances a centralconductors space, and loolr outs in the top over such space, of a turntable held on the top of the car, the trolley arm carried thereon, alantern held on the table to throw the rays on the trolley and Wire anda lever mechanism operated from Within the car, connected With the turntable all arranged substantially as shown and for the purposesdescribed.

3. rlhe combination With the car having a central or conductors space,and look outs in the top over such space, of the rotary trolley tablehaving its shaft projected through the car top and provided With anoperating lever on the lower end having a guide pulley said shaft havingsocket portions having each a guide pulley therein, and a channel Wayconnecting such sockets, said turn table having an arm provided With aguide pulley, and a cord or cable passed over the aforesaid guidepulleys connected with the trolley at one end and having a Weightedhandle member at the other all arranged substantially as shown anddescribed.

4. A street car having an overhead trolley and means Within the car forshifting said trolley, lookouts in the top of said car, and a lightgiving appliance carried upon the trolley mechanism Without the car, forthrowing light upon said trolley and the Wire substantially as shown anddescribed.

5. In a street car, a reversible overhead trolley and means for shiftingthe same, and a light giving appliance carried by said trolley adaptedto throw the light upon said trolley snbstantially as shown anddescribed.

JAMES M. KENNEDY.

Vitnesses:

HENRY L. BUNKER, FRANK J. OVER.

